Legacy
- HMS Hereward was an H-class destroyer of the Royal Navy commissioned on 9 December 1936.
- "Hereward" is the motto of No. 2 Squadron RAF. They are based at RAF Marham in Norfolk and their crest contains a Wake knot.
- BR standard class 7 (otherwise known as the "Britannia Class") locomotive No 70037 carried the name "Hereward the Wake".
- There is a long-distance footpath through the Cambridgeshire fenland from Peterborough to Ely, called the Hereward Way.
- From 1980 to 2009, a local radio station broadcasting from Peterborough was called Hereward FM, before being relaunched as Heart Peterborough.
- Hampstead has a preparatory school for boys called Hereward House School.
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